Carl Krümmel

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Carl Krümmel (born January 24, 1895 in Hamburg ; † August 21, 1942 near Mühlberg ) was a German sports official and scientist.

Life

Krümmel was born into a merchant family. He was an avid athlete from childhood. As a teenager he founded a school sports club and was a youth sports manager at “Germania”, which later became Hamburger SV . In 1912 he had to change schools because he had competed in competitive sports despite the ban. After graduating from high school, he volunteered for the military in 1914; He found the front line to be a physical test.

In 1919, Carl Krümmel took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic as a member of the Freikorps des Ritter von Epp .

Also in 1919 Krümmel won the first German championship title in the 5000 meter run as a member of TSV 1860 Munich . In 1925 the German Association of Physical Education ( sports teachers ) elected him as its chairman.

After the war, Krümmel studied political science and anthropology in Munich and completed his studies in 1922 with a doctorate on the subject of "Workability and physical education taking biological disciplines in the social sciences" based on measurements taken on 4,000 Bavarian students. As a consequence, Krümmel campaigned for “type-relevant body selection and education in the Reichswehr ”. Between 1924 and 1933 he worked as a scientific instructor at the Army Sports School in Wünsdorf near Berlin.

In 1933 he received the rank of SA Hauptsturmführer and rose to the top of the ladder in the following years.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Krümmel excelled at a meeting of the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise on April 12, 1933. An SA troop led by him tried to incite the participants against the chairman and so-called " half-Jew " Theodor Lewald with anti-Jewish interjections. After the meeting, Lewald announced his resignation.

In the same year Krümmel became ministerial director in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education , headed its "Office K" (physical education), in this function founded the " University Institute for Physical Education " (HIfL) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and took over its management . As a result, in 1935 he also founded the driving school for courses across the empire at Neustrelitz Castle . In the following years he further expanded his influence in university sports and made sure that the students were prepared for the socio-political demands of National Socialism . Through his functions as professor, institute director, ministerial director and director of the Reich Academy for Physical Education from 1937 (in the same year he became a member of the NSDAP ), he largely controlled the ideological training of students to become sports teachers and shaped the concept of state physical education. The sports lessons for boys implemented by him through Amt K in the ministry were strongly oriented towards perseverance (= large-scale outdoor games) and courage (= boxing). But the training of sports teachers was also important to him over 1939.

On August 21, 1942, Krümmel, who in previous years had been particularly committed to promoting aviation, died when he crashed in an airplane piloted by Carl August von Gablenz near Mühlberg on the Elbe.

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Athletics. Handbook of Vital Physical Exercises. Munich 1930.
  • with Peter Jaeck : The sports universities of the world. The Congress for Physical Education and the International Sports Student Camp Olympia 1936. Berlin 1937.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Joachim Teichler: International sports policy in the Third Reich . Hofmann, Schorndorf 1991, ISBN 3-7780-7691-4 , p. 30.
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : Breeding, Rearing and Preparing the Aryan Body: Creating the Complete Superman the Nazi Way, in: International Journal History Sport 16 (1999), 2, 42 - 68.
personal data
SURNAME Krümmel, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports official and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1942
Place of death near Mühlberg